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The rise of Fox's "Empire" has been fascinating to watch over the last few weeks, and things just keep getting better for the new hit show. For an unbelievable seventh week in a row, the series — a primetime soap about a family dynasty divided by the fight to control a hip-hop empire — surged in the ratings, netting 13.8 million viewers on Wednesday. That's up from last week's 13 million viewers, up from the previous week's 12 million. And this is all without counting DVR viewings, which would add a few more million sets of eyeballs once the final stats are calculated. Last week, it was the sixth-most watched show on broadcast TV, excluding the...

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The rise of Fox's "Empire" has been fascinating to watch over the last few weeks, and things just keep getting better for the new hit show.
For an unbelievable seventh week in a row, the series — a primetime soap about a family dynasty...

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Until ABC goes through with that “Lost” reboot that co-creator Damon Lindelof thinks is going to happen, we need to find...

We are legion!
TV fanatics who, after a day mired in social media viral videos and flotsam that calls itself entertainment, opt for shows with character. We're the masses rejecting HBO's "Game of Thrones." Yes, we consider action and story...

Entertainment Weekly's home page trumpets its main coverage subjects directly beneath its logo: TV, TV Recaps, Movies, Music, Books, Video.
The addition of TV Recaps came in late April, and its presence — independent of TV and ahead of Movies and Music —...

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Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln.
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It didn't start with Twitter — and it won't end with Weiner. For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists have...

The first screening of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" came just weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11. The movie had been in the works for years, the first in a trilogy based on novels that had been written decades earlier, of...

When Alan Sepinwall was hired as a TV critic just out of college in 1996, he had no way of knowing he was about to witness “a big bang of sorts,” as he puts it in his new book "The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers...

Some of the biggest blockbuster movies in the last 10 years are based on books. (That means you, Harry Potter and “The Hunger Games”). But the annual television lineup has always included its share of book adaptations as well, dating back to at least...

When Chicago-born Freddy Rodriguez was offered a role in a 2012 pilot for hospital drama, he took the gig and just hoped for the best. But after NBC's "The Night Shift" finally began airing last summer, surprising critics with its strong...

"Lost" executive producer Carlton Cuse and star Josh Holloway are teaming up again for the USA science-fiction series "Colony."
The series from Legendary Television and Universal Cable Productions, which is executive produced by...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. Actor Titus Welliver learned early on that you can't trust Fate. It was a sound lesson for somebody who decided to be an actor after he forsook painting. The son of famous landscape artist Neil Welliver, Titus began studying...

Scarcely have the holidays departed, the last bite of figgy pudding or sip of egg nog cycled through our system, the last present sorted for use or reuse, than the winter television season comes crashing down upon us, laden with gifts of its own. Yes,...

If Damon Lindelof had any doubts about his ability to create another memorable TV show after "Lost," let the outstanding first season of "The Leftovers," which just concluded Sunday on HBO, speak for itself.
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Josh Holloway now has a mini-Sawyer for us to swoon over: The "Lost" alum has welcomed a son.
The hunky "Intelligence" actor and his wife, Yessica, welcomed the newest member of their family in February, he told E! News.
The little...

Another week, another step along the path to Terminus for our far-flung survivors on "The Walking Dead."
There's no question now that this mysterious sanctuary known as Terminus appears to be the end point for this season's arc, as we've...

The most powerful woman at the Walt Disney Co. — and perhaps in all of Hollywood — said that she would leave her job overseeing the company's $10-billion-a-year entertainment TV networks, leaving Disney to search for a successor in an increasingly...

When he was 13, Matt Reeves began directing homemade movies with a friend. The Los Angeles teenagers would collaborate on homages to the 1970s genre cinema all around them, making shorts that for Reeves included such childhood grandiosities as...

James Spader pauses when asked the question anyone who's followed his long career has contemplated: Why does he so often play‎ inscrutable oddballs?
"Maybe it's that I like reading something on the page that allows you to fill in the blanks as an...

HBO's post-Rapture drama "The Leftovers" will return for a second season. The cable outlet announced the show's renewal on Wednesday with three episodes left to air in its first season.
The ensemble drama stars Justin Theroux, Amy Brenneman,...